Slavery in the United States: A Letter to the Hon. Daniel WebsterS. Highley, 1845 - 88 pagina's |
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Pagina 60 - ... have been, and may not be resorted to - but what is the case? First, their lives are rendered miserable by a continued series of petty oppressions, and then Liberia is held out to them as a sort of paradise of plenty and freedom where no white man is to be allowed to tyrannize or oppress. An intelligent mulatto said to me on my questioning him on the subject, 'It was not exactly kidnapping, but we were inveigled away under false pretences.
Pagina 64 - The consequence is, that there have been no differences, and the people are working well. The quantity of work obtained from a freeman there is far beyond the old task of the slave. In the laborious occupation of holing, the emancipated negroes perform double the work of the slave in a day. In road-making the day's task under slavery was to break four barrels of stone. JVbw, by task-work, a weak hand will fill eight barrels, a strong one, from ten to twelve.
Pagina 72 - ... be adopted. Without it, you will still, no doubt, have applicants for removal equal to your means. Yes, sir, people who will not only consent, but beg you to deport them. But what sort of consent — a consent extorted by a species of oppression, calculated to render their situation among us insupportable...
Pagina 59 - From its origin, and throughout the whole period of its existence, it has constantly disclaimed all intention whatever of interfering, in the smallest degree, with the rights of property, or the object of emancipation, gradual or immediate.
Pagina 60 - Paul our vessels were crowded by respectable and intelligent mulattoes, all of whom, with the exception of the coloured editor of the Liberia Gazette, and one or two others in the pay of the Society by whom they are sent from America, complained bitterly of the deceit that had been practised towards them, and of the privations under which they were then suffering. It was often a source of regret to me...